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Doctor Found 11 Parasitic Worms Living in a Man’s Eye (And Some Were Pregnant)

Doctors treating a 71-year-old farmer discovered 11 parasitic worms in his eye, including females that were already producing larvae.

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Last year, I wrote about a 35-year-old man with worms swimming around in his eyeball. It sounds like the kind of thing that shouldn’t happen often, yet we are back here today with a similar case report published in the New England Journal of Medicine, via Ars Technica. This time, our patient is a 71-year-old South Korean farmer who had mating worms in his eyes that had to be removed before they could give birth to larvae, which would’ve made matters significantly........

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